News
Towards Package-local Data
Besides code a qooxdoo application maintains a fair amount of data that represents some sort of resources. This might be negligible for small to medium size applications, but becomes significant for large apps. The resources fall roughly into two
The week in qooxdoo (2009-10-30)
Welcome back to another roundup of qooxdoo happenings.
New generator job
We've added a new generator job named "info" to the GUI and Inline skeletons. Thus a generate.py info will display some environment information about the system, the
The week in qooxdoo (2009-10-23)
This is another weekly activity report from the qooxdoo realm. Welcome!
Framework
Mouse Capturing
Last week we talked about how to track the mouse position while the cursor is outside of the browser's view port. Since then we have done
The week in qooxdoo (2009-10-16)
Welcome back to the roll-up of another exciting week in qooxdoo.
Scrolling Menus
For a long time qooxdoo's menu implementation was missing an important feature: If the screen was smaller than a menu required, the menu was cut off and some menu entries could not be selected. This is history. Large menus now use slide bars on-demand [...]
Mouse Capturing
Yesterday we have found solution for a really annoying problem. The problem was that we didn't receive mouse events during drag operation in IE and Firefox if the cursor left the browser viewport. This was especially a problem for our scroll bars. Since qooxdoo 0.8 we render scroll bars using qooxdoo widgets. If the scrollbar [...]
The week in qooxdoo (2009-10-09)
Here's another roundup of qooxdoo happenings. This time we'll start with one of the most important parts of the framework, i.e. the tool chain, more precisely the Generator:
Dependency Analysis
An essential part of the work of the generator
The week in qooxdoo (2009-10-02)
Lets take a look back at another enjoyable week in qooxdoo:
Native Scroll Bars
Since qooxdoo 0.8 we render the scroll bars as pure qooxdoo widgets. This has the advantage that one has full control over the behavior and theming of scroll bars. Unfortunately, it is not possible to always replace the scroll bars with qooxdoo scroll [...]
The week in qooxdoo (2009-09-25)
Welcome to another summary of activities that took place during the week:
The Ajax Experience
But first, here is some feedback from Fabian's participation at this year's TAE:
"Last week I (Fabian) represented qooxdoo at The Ajax
The week in qooxdoo (2009-09-18)
Welcome! It is one week after qooxdoo 0.8.3 saw the light of day, thanks for all the feedback we received so far. Keep it rolling! But, there is a road ahead and there is no standing still, so here we go...
Framework
Data binding
A key feature of the whole qooxdoo data binding layer is the data array, [...]
qooxdoo 0.8.3 released
As planned the Open Source RIA Framework qooxdoo is available in a new release 0.8.3. It is quite a comprehensive release, with many improvements and bugfixes over the previous version. For more info please see the detailed release notes.
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